Staunch Allies?

Quite the greatest advantage the Soviets have over the West is continuity of leadership and policy. With the continuity goes a quite remarkable staunchness toward allies and “assets” (such as spies).

We in the West cannot possibly compete with totalist systems in continuity of leadership, for to do so would contradict one of the fundamentals of our democracies. In principle, however, there is no reason why we should not aim at continuity of policy and staunchness toward friends and allies.